Writer Albert Waitt’s murder mystery, ‘The Ruins of Woodman’s Village,’ paints a picture of a small town, biases and all.
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Books news and reviews from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Christmas Mittens Murder’ and ‘The Garden Maker’s Book of Wonder’
A trio of short murder mystery novellas just in time for Christmas, and how to have fun and find peace in your garden no matter how big or small
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AUTHOR EVENT: Betty Nadine Thomas
Hallowell artist and poet releases “Unleashed: Poems & Drawings”
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OFF RADAR: ‘With Little Light and Sometimes None at All: poems’
Richard Foerster’s collection of his highly personal poems is a book of moments, in keeping with much of his previous work.
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Book about Maine’s Malaga Island falls short in Booker Prize contest
Paul Harding’s ‘This Other Eden’ was also nominated for a National Book Award.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘The Narrow Seas’ and ‘When the Island Had Fish’
The 11th volume in Harpswell author James Nelson’s magnificent “Norsemen Saga,” and author and essayist Janna Malamud Smith’s fascinating study of Vinalhaven
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British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
‘Possession,’ published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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Malaga Island-inspired ‘This Other Eden’ is fiction; critics say it revives harmful myths
Paul Harding says his latest novel, up for major awards, is not meant to be historically accurate. But archivists and descendants believe it badly invites inaccurate depictions of the Maine island’s mistreated residents.
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BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Hidden Beneath’ and ‘Body of Water’
The eleventh book in the Maine Clambake Mystery series by Barbara Ross, and a debut mystery novel by Daniel Boyne
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A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser’s memoir, ‘The Road Washes Out in Spring,’ was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.